Display-stand.



No Model.)

B. ZIMMER.

DISPLAY STAND.

(Appliation filed Apr. 30, 1902.)

Patented Oct. 2|, I902.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN ZIMMER, OF MILlVAUKEE, WISCONSIN I DISPLAY-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent l\ l'0. 711,690, dated October 21, 1902.

' Application filed April 30,1902. Serial No. 105,373. on model-l T0 (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LBENJAMIN ZIMMER,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Stands; and I dohereby declareythat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates especially to devices for displaying articles for sale in stores and shops; and it consist-sin certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying my said invention; and Fig. 2 is a front view thereof, portions being shown broken away or in section in both views to betterillustrate certain details of constrl'iction.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1. designates the base of my said device, pref erably of metal, and from which there risesa standard of suitable material, such as metal, and which standard in its preferred form (herein illustrated) consists of a metal rod or tube having a short vertical portion 2 next the base, a forwardly-projecting horizontal portion 3, and a backwardly-inclined upper portion 4, all made in one piece, although the precise shape or line of projection 0r inclination of said standard is not material.

5 5 5 represent a series of sleeves adj ustably mounted on said standard and secured. in the desired relative position to which they have been adjusted, as by set-screws o, and 7 7 7 designatea series of longitudinally-slotted tubes, preferablyclosedat each end, as by the balls or knobs S, and which tubes are formed with or otherwise connected or so cured to the just-described sleeves, the pre-, ferred form of said tubes 7 being that illustrated in Fig. 2, where they are shown as downwardly curved on the arcs of circles, although this is not material. The said tubes (of which any desired number may be employed) are stuifed with any suitable yielding material-such as curled hair, vegetable moss, or other fibrous filling or the like-as indicated at 9 9, which material preferably projects slightly through the described longitudinal slots of the tubes 7, as shown, and

into which material the sharp teeth of combs and the ends of ornamental hair-pins and the like may be thrust, as shown with the comb 10 in the drawings.

My device will be founda very useful arti:

cle for the window-dresser in displaying goods 7 of this nature, besides which the goods themselves, particularly when made of tortoiseshell and like readily-breakable material, are

much less liable to injury when thus displayed than when shown in the usual boxes and cases and can beconstantly changed and shifted about, and, further, these goods with my device-can be shown to advantage with out the employment of specially-designed boxes or cases each conformingin shape and size to the individual articles, which results in considerable saving in expense.

The standard and tubes may be made as ornamental as desired, but are very attractive in appearance when made of bent metal tubes and nickel-plated,which is, further, the cheapest form of construction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent; is V l. A display-stand, comprising'a standard in combination with a-slotted tube supported thereby, and a yielding filling within said tube.

2. Adispl'ay-stand, comprisinga standard, in combination with a series of sleeves adjustably secured thereto, longitudinally-slotted tubes con nected to said sleeves and a yielding filling within said tubes.

A display-stand, comprising a standard in combination with aseries of longitudinallyslotted tubes, and curledhair 0r analogous loose fibrous filling in said tubes.

4. A display-stand,com prising a standard, in combination with a series of sleeves adjustably movable thereon, a series of setscrews for retaining said sleeves in the desired adjusted positions, a series of longitudiually-slotted tubes secured to and projecting from'said sleeves, and curled hair or analogous loose fibrous filling in said tubes.

In testimony that I claim theforegoing I have hereunto set my'hand, at Milwaukee, in the countycf Milwaukee and-State of Wis- .consin, in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN ZIMMER.

I Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWooD, B. O. ROLOFF. 

